Comparisons
Art Deco vs Art Nouveau
One curves and one doesn’t. The full difference between the two styles either side of the First World War — motifs, colors, dates and how to date a piece.
Art History
Famous Paintings
William Merritt Chase’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Beach days on Long Island, a crowded Manhattan studio, and America’s most dazzling brushwork: ten paintings by William Merritt Chase.
Famous Paintings
Jean Béraud’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Wet boulevards, pastry shops, and the crowds of the Belle Époque: the ten works that made Béraud the portraitist of Paris itself.
Movements
What Is Ukiyo-e?
Japan’s “pictures of the floating world” — how the prints were made, who made them, and how to recognize one across a room.
Famous Paintings
Maurice Prendergast’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Venetian bridges, Boston beaches and Central Park crowds: ten works by the American painter who turned holiday crowds into mosaics of color.
Famous Paintings
Marsden Hartley’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Berlin insignia, Maine mountains, and a red lobster on black: the ten works that define America’s most restless modernist.
Movements
The Hudson River School
America’s first native school of painting: how a young Englishman’s trip up the Hudson in 1825 turned landscape into a national argument.
Famous Paintings
Helene Schjerfbeck’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
From a wounded soldier in the snow to the starkest self-portraits in modern art: ten works by Finland’s greatest painter.
Famous Paintings
Charles-François Daubigny’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Rivers, orchards, and wide gray skies: ten landscapes by the Barbizon painter who opened the door for the Impressionists.
Famous Paintings
Pompeo Batoni’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The painter every young Englishman on the Grand Tour wanted to sit for: ten works by the last great master of eighteenth-century Rome.
Famous Paintings
Eugene de Blaas’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Venetian girls at the well, on the balcony, and at the washtub: ten paintings by the great charmer of nineteenth-century Venice.
Famous Paintings
Rosa Bonheur’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The nineteenth century’s greatest painter of animals — horses, cattle, stags and lions, seen by an artist who knew them intimately.